"It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination."

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"It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination."

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"Do you know what the best and worst thing about a book is? The author can't answer all your questions, only your imagination can."

S. A. Tawks, British Author

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"Sci-fi opens the way in mind for the new science."

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"When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . .She is the fairies' midwife, and she comesIn shape no bigger than an agate stoneOn the forefinger of an alderman,Drawn with a team of little atomiAthwart men's noses as they lie asleep."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"And when he invented his hell, that was his heaven on earth."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

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"The words we construct, the poems we write and the songs we sing, become the love story of a stranger we have never seen."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"Music enables mind to compose things in the outer limit of logic."

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